Very rural area here, and too far away from fancy building areas for any real craftsmen to be near - as I've found out the hard way when I tried to contract the work. I was a commercial mason for 20 yrs, then designed and built this passive solar home. Re: roof cricket leak repair in progress with photos and questions Seems like closed cut would be fine, but Tamko doesn't have that as an option.Thanks for ANY help! IMG_2895a-resized.jpg IMG_2896a-resized.jpg IMG_2899a-resized.jpg IMG_2900a-resized.jpg IMG_2902a-resized.jpg Seems like I should NOT do a California cut here, but a closed cut since getting 3 layers of laminated shingles all stacked up seems overdone AND since it's a 3/12 slope and some recommendations are to avoid CA cut in low slope roofs. If I put the flashing under the California cut shingle, it won't be available to put directly under the final layer when I finish the cricket side of the valley with the regular runs. Please see the photo attachments and give opinions on whether or not the next step flashing should go under or over the up-the-valley California cut shingle (or if I should use closed cut instead, which makes the first question irrelevant). The first 3 are all as instructed for the first side of the valley, the final 2 are with the unique California cut second side, first shingle, running up the valley and set back 2' from the valley as in the instructions (I'll trim it curved to fit to the turret before installing). Their next step is to proceed with what most folks call California cut. These Tamko shingles are - so far - done by Tamko valley instructions. I have peel-and-stick in the valley and felt over the peel-and-stick. I'm redoing it and have a couple questions for you pros.Д«efore you tell me I'm doing this backwards, here's my reason: I would have shingled the cricket side first since it'll shed less water, but the curved turret and where the first shingle would have landed looked like trouble, so I've done the lower slope (higher volume)side first.

Of course, it leaked! Location, VA and NC border with some heavy rains and up to 12' of snow. Hi gang, a 'roofer' cut thru the underlayment while trimming shingles, nailed in the valley AND ended shingles in the valley.

Roof cricket